Sunday, February 22, 2015

Midwestern - Eastern U.S. record breaking cold and snow as seen from space

From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA snaps picture of Eastern US in a record-breaking ‘freezer’

NASA’s Terra satellite captured this picture of snow across the eastern
United States on Feb. 19 at 16:20 UTC (11:20 a.m. EST). Credit: NASA
Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team

NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the snow-covered eastern
U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer. In
addition to the snow cover, Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled
in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many
states.

On Feb. 19 at 16:40 UTC (11:40 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s
Terra satellite captured a picture of the snowy landscape. The snow
cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like
the inside of freezer. The MODIS image was created at NASA’s Goddard
Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

On the morning of Feb. 20, NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC)
noted, “There were widespread subzero overnight lows Thursday night
(Feb. 19) extending from Illinois to western Virginia, and numerous
record lows were set. Bitterly-cold arctic air is setting numerous
temperature records across the eastern U.S. and will keep temperatures
well below normal on Friday (Feb. 20).”

In Baltimore, Maryland, a low temperature of 1F broke the record low
for coldest morning recorded at the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore
Washington-International Airport.

In Louisville, Kentucky, temperatures dropped to -6F, breaking the
old record low of 0F, according to meteorologist Brian Goode of WAVE-TV.
Meanwhile, Richmond Kentucky bottomed out at a frigid -32F.

In North Carolina, a record low temperature was set at Charlotte
where the overnight temperature bottomed out at 7F breaking the old
record of 13F in 1896. In Asheville, temperatures dropped to just 4F
breaking the old record of 10F in 1979. Temperature records for
Asheville extend back to 1876.

Several records were also broken in Georgia, according to Matt
Daniel, a meteorologist at WMAZ-TV, Macon Georgia, who cited data from
the National Weather Service. Daniel said that Macon set a new record
low when the temperature dropped to 18F, beating the previous record of
21F set in 1958. Athens broke a new record low, too dropping to 14F and
beating the old record of 18F set in 1958/1928.

NOAA’s NPC noted that “Highs on Friday (Feb. 20) will struggle to get
out of the teens from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic region. After
Friday, temperatures are forecast to moderate and get closer to
February averages as a storm system approaches from the west.”

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